History of Griffith University

Beginnings 

In 1965 174 hectares (430 segments of area) of ordinary bushland at Nathan were set aside for another grounds. At first the site was to be a bit of the University of Queensland, which was experiencing strong enthusiasm for humanities and sociologies. By 1970 another association was being mooted, and Theodor Bray (later Sir Theodor Bray) was asked by the Queensland Government to develop a second for Brisbane and the third for the state. Taking after a while of talk, the Queensland Government investigated 24 December 1970 that Bray would head a block blamed for building Griffith University. The Mount Gravatt site was renamed Nathan and set to wind up Griffith's first grounds. On 30 September 1971, the Queensland Government definitively made and saw Griffith University with the passing of the Assent to Griffith University Act 1971. On 5 March 1975, Griffith University began teaching 451 understudies in four schools: Australian Environmental Studies, Humanities, Modern Asian Studies and Science. The school was perceived by its "issue based" rather than disciplinary approach to manage course framework and examination. 

Extension 

In the 1990s, the Dawkins Revolution saw a number tertiary preparing changes in Australia, realizing a movement of amalgamations of schools and universities. In 1990, the Mount Gravatt Teacher's College (developed in 1969) and Gold Coast College of Advanced Education (set up in 1987) got the opportunity to be legitimate grounds of Griffith University. The Queensland Conservatorium of Music continued with the propelled instruction mergers and transformed into an official bit of Griffith University in 1991. At first settled in 1957, the new component got the chance to be known as Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. In 1992, the amalgamations were done for Griffith, with the Queensland College of Art (QCA), developed in 1881 and saw as the most prepared tenacious working workmanship get ready establishment in Australia legitimately ending up being a bit of the University. 

Griffith's fifth grounds, Logan, opened in 1998. Arranged in the suburb of Meadowbrook, on a region of green fields south of Brisbane, the Logan grounds was set up to unequivocally address the interests and necessities of the Logan City territory. 

Grounds 

Griffith University's grounds are unmistakable for their disposition based settings inside urban circumstances. 

Griffith University busway station on the South East Busway 

Griffith University (Nathan Campus) from Stadium Path 

Gold Coast grounds 

The Gold Coast grounds is arranged in the Gold Coast suburb of Southport. Set in neighborhood bushland, on the spot where there is the Aboriginal Yugambeh/Kombumerri people groups, this grounds plays host to more than 18,200 understudies from all over Australia and the world. It is Griffith University's greatest grounds. 

The grounds has seen vital advancement and change over the span of the latest couple of years, with the opening of the $150 million Griffith Health Center in 2013 and the dispatch of the $38 million Griffith Business School working in 2014. The Gold Coast new light rail (G:link) advantage now has two stops on the grounds. 

On-grounds understudy comfort is open through the furtively worked Griffith University Village. 

Logan grounds 

Logan is Griffith University's gathering focused grounds. Encouraging practically 2500 understudies, the grounds offers degrees in human organizations and social work, nursing and maternity consideration, business and exchange, and preparing. The grounds has strong relationship with the area bunch, encouraging different sorting and social events reliably. 

Nathan grounds 

Nathan, Griffith's foundation grounds, is orchestrated in serene, neighborhood bushland on the edge of Toohey Forest and under 10 kilometers from the Brisbane CBD. Nathan has more than 13,000 understudies and offers degrees in business and government, building and information advancement, environment, humanities and vernaculars, law, and science and flying. 

The structures at the Nathan grounds were proposed to fit into the earth by Roger Kirk Johnson the setting up building originator of the grounds, taking after the slope of the range and using compositional technique for cooling. The library building was sketched out by Robin Gibson and won the primary national honor for library arrangement. The gatherings of structures, amusements workplaces, bushland spares and recreational domains are related by fused frameworks of walking ways. 

In 2013, the six-star, green-assessed Sir Samuel Griffith Center was opened on the Nathan grounds. The building works off the cross section and is controlled by a blend of photovoltaics and hydrogen. 

The grounds has two private colleges for understudies and an extent of shaking workplaces. 

From 2015 onwards, the Nathan grounds will serve as Brisbane Roar's new planning base, with the Roar's understanding at long haul get ready venue Ballymore slipping by, and the field at their past Perry Park association base not meeting the gages required by the Roar. 

Mount Gravatt grounds 

The Mount Gravatt grounds, adjacent the Nathan grounds, has 4400 understudies. It is the University's humanistic systems and humanities focus and the base for examination into urgent social issues, including preparing and suicide evasion. 

Like Nathan, the grounds is orchestrated on the edge of Toohey Forest. The grounds incorporates a starting late upgraded maritime and wellbeing center, with a warmed pool and indoor and outside excitement regions, co-arranged with a 16-court tennis center, a readiness oval, and b-ball and netball courts. On-grounds understudy accommodation is moreover available. 

South Bank grounds 

Arranged in Brisbane's social district, the South Bank grounds is Griffith University's inventive focus point. It incorporates Griffith's Queensland College of Art and Queensland Conservatorium, and the Griffith Film School and Griffith Graduate Center. Encouraging around 3400 understudies, the grounds is coterminous the Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, the Queensland State Library, Queensland Museum, the Queensland Performing Arts Center and the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Center. It is a short walk around the Brisbane CBD.